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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 7416909, member: 75937"]I've been thinking about this one and it's challenging. Its diameter is very large and yet it doesn't quite have the boardwalk flan one might expect if a middle bronze had been struck on a thin, large diameter flan intended for the denomination. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is my version (veiled and stephaned bust) of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1288688[/ATTACH] </p><p>Faustina I, AD 138-140.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 28.18 g, 33.1 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 143-145.</p><p>Obv: DIVA AVGVS-TA FAVSTINA, veiled and stephaned bust, right.</p><p>Rev: PIETAS AVG S C, Pietas, veiled, draped, standing left, dropping incense out of right hand over lighted 'candelabrum-altar', left, and holding box in left hand. </p><p>Refs: RIC 1146Ac; BMCRE 1447-50; Cohen --; Strack 1241; RCV --. </p><p><br /></p><p>The die diameter -- measured from beaded rim to beaded rim across the center, is quite large, 33 mm. The <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-12518" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-12518" rel="nofollow">British Museum specimen</a> with the same bust type as the OP is a whopping 34.2 mm in diameter! </p><p><br /></p><p>There is no way the die diameter on the obverse of the OP is 33 mm. It looks more like 30 mm if the coin is 31 mm in diameter. But 30 mm is generous for a middle bronze and the die diameter of the reverse is even larger -- the beaded rim doesn't even fit on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's the dupondius version in my collection (again, I have only the veiled bust version).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-pietas-avg-sc-candelabrum-dupondius-veiled-jpg.1151511/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Faustina I, AD 138-140.</p><p>Roman orichalcum dupondius, 10.26 g, 27.4 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 140-41.</p><p>Obv: DIVA AVGVS-TA FAVSTINA, veiled and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: PIETAS AVG S C, Pietas, veiled, draped, standing left, dropping incense out of right hand over lighted "candelabrum-altar," left, and holding box in left hand.</p><p>Refs: RIC <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1192Ab_dupondius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1192Ab_dupondius" rel="nofollow">1192Ab</a>; BMCRE <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-12541" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-12541" rel="nofollow">1472</a>; Cohen 241; Strack 1241; RCV --.</p><p><br /></p><p>The die diameter is 26 mm, as one would expect. Note, too, this weighs only 10.26 g, whereas the OP coin is 60% heavier. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm going to say the OP is a SESTERTIUS, based upon the size of the dies, but it's struck on a smaller and light-weight flan. </p><p><br /></p><p>That would make the coin RIC 1146Aa; BMCRE 1442; Cohen —; Strack 1241.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 7416909, member: 75937"]I've been thinking about this one and it's challenging. Its diameter is very large and yet it doesn't quite have the boardwalk flan one might expect if a middle bronze had been struck on a thin, large diameter flan intended for the denomination. This is my version (veiled and stephaned bust) of the coin. [ATTACH=full]1288688[/ATTACH] Faustina I, AD 138-140. Roman orichalcum sestertius, 28.18 g, 33.1 mm, 6 h. Rome, AD 143-145. Obv: DIVA AVGVS-TA FAVSTINA, veiled and stephaned bust, right. Rev: PIETAS AVG S C, Pietas, veiled, draped, standing left, dropping incense out of right hand over lighted 'candelabrum-altar', left, and holding box in left hand. Refs: RIC 1146Ac; BMCRE 1447-50; Cohen --; Strack 1241; RCV --. The die diameter -- measured from beaded rim to beaded rim across the center, is quite large, 33 mm. The [URL='https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-12518']British Museum specimen[/URL] with the same bust type as the OP is a whopping 34.2 mm in diameter! There is no way the die diameter on the obverse of the OP is 33 mm. It looks more like 30 mm if the coin is 31 mm in diameter. But 30 mm is generous for a middle bronze and the die diameter of the reverse is even larger -- the beaded rim doesn't even fit on the reverse. Here's the dupondius version in my collection (again, I have only the veiled bust version). [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-pietas-avg-sc-candelabrum-dupondius-veiled-jpg.1151511/[/IMG] Faustina I, AD 138-140. Roman orichalcum dupondius, 10.26 g, 27.4 mm, 6 h. Rome, AD 140-41. Obv: DIVA AVGVS-TA FAVSTINA, veiled and draped bust, right. Rev: PIETAS AVG S C, Pietas, veiled, draped, standing left, dropping incense out of right hand over lighted "candelabrum-altar," left, and holding box in left hand. Refs: RIC [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1192Ab_dupondius']1192Ab[/URL]; BMCRE [URL='https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_R-12541']1472[/URL]; Cohen 241; Strack 1241; RCV --. The die diameter is 26 mm, as one would expect. Note, too, this weighs only 10.26 g, whereas the OP coin is 60% heavier. I'm going to say the OP is a SESTERTIUS, based upon the size of the dies, but it's struck on a smaller and light-weight flan. That would make the coin RIC 1146Aa; BMCRE 1442; Cohen —; Strack 1241.[/QUOTE]
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